Day V:

today was all audio boards, all the time. i'll get the other stuff out of the way first:

and now, a word from the sponsor...

on 20 may 2006, i'm riding in a 100km (62mi) tour de cure charity bicycling event in madison, wi. all proceeds benefit diabetes research. if you're so inclined, visit my TdC web site & make a donation to the TdC, or just give me the filthy lucre when i get back. don't like me? Dan Zweig is riding too, so give your donation to him... see if i care.

link:http://main.diabetes.org/site/TR?px=2803986&pg=personal&fr_id=3251

or go to diabetes.org/tour click "sponsor a rider" -- select "wisconsin" -- select "madison" -- search "barcheski"

the score:

+/-=let's just say i won't be replacing my timex anytime soon.

amount i miss Margo & Marlone=i'll be home later today.

stay 'tooned for best of show and odds & ends coming soon.

board snap shots:

Wheatstone D7 / D10. Instant Gratification: cost: $$$$$$ / Overall Rating :)
a quality board. prooven but pricy. but, the way they do it, you have one set of guts that can get controled by multiple consoles. so, if we buy a smaller D7 as a more robust back up for the oxford, when it comes time to replace the sony, the wheatstone guts are already in-house, and we buy another wheatstone board with more sliders and cooler features as our main board. super clean interface.


Euphonix MaxAir: IG: $$$$$$+ / O.R. :
a very shi-shi high-end board. would be a direct replacement. somewhat of an intimadating interface. in use by CNN, among others.


Lawo Zirkon XL: IG: $$$$$ / O.R. :
this definately could perform as a great oxford backup, but maximum fader capacity tops out at 40. so, it probably would not serve our needs if it was ever called upon to be the main board. very simple looking and feeling interface. will pass 5.1 surround, but can't create it.

Solid State Logic C100: IG: $$$$$$+ / O.R. :)
a really cool and powerful 5.1 surround sound board. this ain't no body's backup. cost is high, but you get a lot.

Calrec (i forgot the model #): IG: $$$$$$ / O.R. :)
a very impressive top-tier board, which has an interesting redundancy plan. it has a PC to help you program the thing, but if the windows machine croaks, you can do everything on the main console anyway.

Klotz: IG: $$$$$ / O.R. :(
very simple design, but no 5.1. right now not a problem, but down the road a problem. would work as a backup, but would be obselete too soon. max of only 16 sliders



Harriston Air 24/7: IG: $$$$$$ / O.R. :
a simple-looking mixer, but too simple. the faders are very far apart, making a 24 fader model unnecessairly huge. could serve as a backup, but it would be iffy as a main. metering had a cool wave form animaton too it. SAS Rubicon IG: ???? / O.R. :( realy a radio board that couldn't be flexible enough to be a main board someday.